Parting-from-Consciousness Words

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Last Words, but before Instant Sedation rather than dying. Sometimes they possess a bit of the impact of actual Last Words because the fainting character is in bad shape and using the last strength they have to utter them or because their general situation is bad and they don't know if they will wake up again.

In a variant, the person doing the sedating may give a one-liner to the person they have sedated. A brief bit of Snark-to-Snark Combat may ensue, before the drugged party passes out.

In one episode of Pokémon, a doctor is trying to give an aggressive Pokemon being treated a shot of sedative. Because of how much the Pokemon is flailing, he accidentally sticks himself with the needle. He has just enough time to tell Ash, Misty, and Brock how long it's going to put him out for, before staggering off to pass out.

After being poisoned and wounded Zen of Akagami no Shirayukihime manages to order almost everyone else still clinging to consciousness in the room to get medical attention before passing out himself showing just how much he values the country's soldiers and his personal aides.

Films — Live-Action

In the original The Naked Gun, the Police Squad lab tech is demonstrating a tranquilizer dart-shooting watch to Frank Drebin (it's that kind of movie). When he shoots Frank's squadmate, Ed, the man puts his hand to his neck (where the dart landed). Then, as he's passing out, he says:

Ed: Ted... why?

Mystery Men: Right after Captain Amazing asks what he just picked up is if not evidence, it shoots out a cloud of pink smoke. Captain Amazing can only briefly protest:

Played with in 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is effectively dead for the remainder of the movie, but is only shut down, as he's a computer. It's one of the most famous moments in film

HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...

Near the beginning of xXx, Xander is shot with a tranquilizer dart. This may come across as a Non Sequitur, *Thud*, but it's not. Not ten minutes earlier in the movie, he had stolen a car (as part of a Take That! to a Jack Thompson expy). The car in question was a Corvette. Which led to the quote.

Xander:[confused] It was only a Corvette! *Thump*

In the movie Death Becomes Her, Bruce Willis's character gets smashed over the head with a large vase. He irritably turns to his attacker and asks "What?" before falling unconscious (and almost falling down a flight of stairs).

Dark Helmet suffers this due to his own incompetent leadership; when he orders Colonel Sandurz to hit the emergency brake to get Spaceball One out of Ludicrous Speed, he continues forward into a console. After they pick him back up, somewhat battered, he suggests everyone take a five-minute break before he collapses.

Mal and Inara in the episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" both get curse words as Saffron's knockout drug takes effect. Almost. Neither of them quite manage to finish cursing, but they both say more or less the same thing: Mal gets "Son of a—" and Inara, "You stupid son of a—!"

In "Objects in Space", Simon is walking Zoe through removing a bullet from his leg (without painkillers, as he needs to remain alert). After she gets the bullet out, he says "Okay, I think I'm gonna pass out now..."

Mudd: What can I do? Kirk: Nothing, Harry. Just.. go to sleep. Mudd: What do you mean? [Dr. McCoy produces a hypo] Oh, now, now wait a minute, gentlemen. No, what I, I.. [gets injected] had in mind was actually more in the line of a few words of sage counsel, as it were. Advice... [THUNK]Kirk: Oh, Harry. I do believe you're putting on weight.

In one episode of Hill Street Blues, Lt. Hunter receives a gift in the mail from an admirer which he thinks is some sort of flute. One of the other officers in the precinct tries blowing into it. There is a pfft, and a feathered dart is sticking out of Hunter's chest.

Hunter: Oh. It's a blowgun. [thud; roll opening credits]

Casey in the Chuck episode Chuck vs The Dream Job is shot twice with tranquilizer darts and has a third dart stabbed into his neck by Chuck.

Casey:[to Chuck] I'm gonna kill you when I wake up.

In one episode of M*A*S*H, Henry grabs a hypodermic syringe from a combative patient in the OR and gets a handful of the needle. He manages to count down to ninety-eight before collapsing. Counting backwards from one hundred is a common suggestion from surgeons to their patients to track when the patient succumbs to the anesthetic.

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Video Games

Kratos's last words before he faints due to Yuan's lightning attack in Tales of Symphonia are "Are you all right?...Good." This, of course, is spoken to the intended target of the attack he blocked, Lloyd, his son.

In Hitman: Blood Money after Diana injects Agent 47 with a fake death serum/sedative to fake his death, Mr. 47 attempts to fight back but winds up on the ground muttering "We can't...(the rest is inaudible)" before finally passing out.

Twice in Metal Gear Solid 4, the first time when Raiden is badly wounded after a fight with Vamp and manages to say "Go meet... Big Mama" before finally succumbing to his wounds. The second time is again with Raiden after he briefly wakes up, when he tells Snake and the others that a man in eastern Europe named Dr. Madnar, the man who saved his life the first time, can heal him before once again falling unconscious.

Web Comics

Dave in College Roomies from Hell!!!: "I will use the last of my consciousness to state that this is not cola, this is in fact plain and simple paint thinner."

Beast Wars: Waspinator captures a protohuman girl and is trying to carry her back to base. Unfortunately, said protohuman got some pointers from Cheetor and puts them to use, hacking away at his joints so that by the time she's finally delivered to Megatron, he barely manages, "Waspinator deliver fleshy-bot safe and sound..." before he falls all to pieces again.

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